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Styles are a very powerful and probably an under-utilized feature that can really help make your Composer experiences more consistent. In one example from the forum, a user was adding spaces to text panels to make them the same size. I see users all the time that will make a new panel and change the […]

This is the first customer video from one of our 3Dmojo users, Azhar Qazi. Azar is a Mechanical Engineer from India working for Precihole Machine Tools. He works in design and development of Air rifles as well as Deep Hole Drilling machines. As an additional activity he also creates content for marketing like rendered images, […]

Hello, Here is just a few possible use cases for CATIA Composer showing some nice examples in Sales and Marketing, Quality Assessment, Customer Support and Services, Manuals and Technical Documentation, and Engineering and Manufacturing using imported PMI from CATIA. BTW, We are still looking for customer demo videos, possible tips or any other Composer skills […]

You probably noticed some changes when you got to 3DMOJO. New logo and colors, whats up? You might say, “but I’m not a CATIA user.” Not to worry, its all good 3DVIA Composer is now called CATIA Composer. This is an exciting development which promises to be help for all Composer users. CATIA is Dassault […]

It’s time to show off your Composer skills. In talking with users at trade shows and customer sites many of you have developed really cool tips and tricks of your own to help speed up your production or help in specific situations. Why not show off those skills and be a hero to others who […]

Moving multiple parts with “Local Transform”

Composer has many useful functions to help your authoring processes faster and more enjoyable.

The first function I would like to introduce is “Select Instances” that can select all the same geometry referenced in several positions of the model.

With this function, you can select multiple instances with just one click.

Then, select Transform > Multiple Gizmos and Local Transform.

Multiple Gizmos will display the axis arrows for each part selected in the previous operation.

This will visualize the direction of the possible part movements. Please note that the green arrows are directing outward for each tire.

When you drag one of the green arrows, you can see that each part is moving to the direction indicated by the arrows. When the Local Transform is enabled, all selected parts move along their own directions going outward from the assembled car, instead of all of them going toward the same direction.

The benefit of this function is that with one single operation, you can assign the same movements to all the referenced parts. There are many cases in illustration creation or assembly instruction creation where you need to disassemble multiple parts, and this function should save time and avoid errors by moving instances to their appropriate positions with the same amount.